The renewed decline in the Ifo Business Climate Index (BCI) in December echoes the message from the Composite PMI released last week and unequivocally points to a continued downturn. It looks very likely that GDP will contract for a second successive quarter in Q4 and the outlook for 2024 does not look much better.
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